Custom tab

Hello team,
Here it is, on my very old 2008 file, I could right-click on the folder and I had access to a " customize " tab where I could see the property table of my room without opening it.
How to recover this if it's possible.
May the Force be with you

Hi @OBI_WAN ,

I find this option until 2014 and from 2015 it is lost but why?!?



Hello
From what I understood by quickly searching it was only available in Solidworks Explorer from certain versions.
SW has probably changed the way to access the personal properties of files so Windows certainly doesn't have access (the fact that it goes through the Document manager APIs seems to me to confirm this, otherwise we could access it much more easily by "simple" VBA).

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Hello

Chances are that this corresponds to when SW encrypted Solidworks files. Previously it was a kind of zip and the content of the files was accessible via tools like 7zip for example.
It was quite practical because you could for example: modify references on an assembly or a MEP for example. remove the design history to save file size...

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